Make Your Impact Positive and Long Lasting

All of us are leaders in our workplace regardless of our job titles. Leaders inspire others to action and they impact many people on a daily basis. These interactions range from a brief exchange in the hallway to a day-long meeting on financial challenges to the company. Each day we have the opportunity to lead many others: our customers and potential customers, suppliers, our staff and employees, co-workers, and other stakeholders representing the community where our company resides. Every day we have the opportunity to make a choice about making a positive and constructive impact. We can choose to take advantage of the many daily opportunities to make positive and constructive impacts on others.

How do you want others to think about you? What would people perceive your impact to be? Some positive and constructive examples that reflect the real tensions people experience in their companies on a daily basis could include:

• A focused person that really listens to the needs of the many stakeholders in the company
• A person that understands the importance of the big picture yet is able to pay attention to day-to-day details
• A person that is a good problem solver yet allows people the opportunity to grow and develop by supporting their skill development in problem identification and resolution.

What do you think the gap is between how others perceive your impacts and what you would like?

How can you change your impact? It is possible to change your impacts by changing your attitudes and behavior. Start with just one goal that you can work into your daily life. Reflect and affirm that you will meet that goal daily and you will have ideas to allow yourself to take advantage of opportunities to make that positive impact. Push yourself to change your attitudes and behaviors around that goal. Keep a journal of your progress. Review your progress and set new goals.

A concern with your impact on others is a requirement for unlocking and improving human potential. Unlocking potential is necessary at all levels of an organization. Everyone in organizations of all kinds need to be very concerned with the impacts that they have. There is a direct correlation between a positive and constructive impacts and improvements to the organization’s bottom line. Measurement of these impacts is essential for organizations of all kinds in order to improve the positive contributions and to switch negative contributions to positive ones. People that take the initiative to unlock and improve their potential are able to succeed in positions of greater responsibility and accountability.

Contact PB Tech for more information on assessment tools that can be used to measure your impacts and to provide prescriptive information for improvement.

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